THE ILIAD OF HOMER Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A. Walter Leaf, Litt. D. Late fellow of Merton College, Late fellow of Trinity College, Oxford Cambridge and Ernest Meyers, M.A. Late fellow of Wadham College, Oxford _REVISED EDITION_ MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTINS STREET, LONDON 1911 Contents PREFATORY NOTE. THE ILIAD OF HOMER BOOK I. BOOK II. BOOK III. BOOK IV. BOOK V. BOOK VI. BOOK VII. BOOK VIII. BOOK IX. BOOK X. BOOK XI. BOOK XII. BOOK XIII. BOOK XIV. BOOK XV. BOOK XVI. BOOK XVII. BOOK XVIII. BOOK XIX. BOOK XX. BOOK XXI. BOOK XXII. BOOK XXIII. BOOK XXIV. PREFATORY NOTE. The execution of this version of the _Iliad_ has been entrusted to the three Translators in the following three parts: Books I.—IX. . . . . W. LEAF. Books X.—XVI. . . . . A. LANG. Books XVII.—XXIV. . . . . E. MYERS. Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Translators, and the rendering of passages or phrases recurring in more than one portion has been determined after deliberation in common. Even in these, however, a certain elasticity has been deemed desirable. On a few doubtful points, though very rarely, the opinion of two of the translators has had to be adopted to the suppression of that held by the third. Thus, for instance, the Translator of Books X.—XVI. Would have preferred “c” and “us” to “k” and “os” in the spelling of all proper names. The text followed has been that of La Roche (Leipzig, 1873), except where the adoption of a different reading has been specified in a footnote. Where the balance of evidence, external and internal, has seemed to the Translator to be against the genuineness of the passage, such passage has been enclosed in brackets []. The Translator of Books X.—XVI. has to thank Mr. R.W. RAPER, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, for his valuable aid in revising the proof-sheets of these Books. NOTE TO REVISED EDITION In the present Edition the translation has been carefully revised throughout, and numerous minor corrections have been made. The Notes at the end of the volume have been, with a few exceptions, omitted; one of the Translators hopes to publish very shortly a Companion to the Iliad for English readers, which will deal fully with most of the points therein referred to. The use of square brackets has in this edition been restricted to passages where there is external evidence, such as absence from the best MSS., for believing in interpolation. One or two departures from this rule are noticed in footnotes. _November_ 1891